Flask Framework Cookbook - Second Edition

Getting ready

We will proceed with the application from the previous recipe that has S3 support for uploads.

The first step will be to create a free account with Heroku at https://signup.heroku.com/dc, followed by downloading and installing the Heroku CLI, which is available as per your machine's OS from https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-cli#download-and-install.

Once the Heroku CLI has been installed, a certain set of commands will be available in the Terminal; we will look at them later in this recipe.

It is advised that you perform Heroku deployment from a fresh virtualenv, where we have only the required packages for our application installed and nothing else. This will make the deployment process faster and easier.

Now, run ...